Gibbs: 2012ers can't excite anybody

Robert Gibbs, a senior adviser for President Obama’s reelection campaign, slammed the three major Republican presidential candidates Thursday for not being able to excite voters.

“I think what you’re seeing from all three of these candidates is they’re not electrifying anybody, they’re not getting anybody excited because many of the topics they’re talking about are just not what voters are really interested in,” said Gibbs on CBS’s “This Morning.”

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“The economic policies that they’re espousing, huge tax cuts, trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy, we’ve tried that formula, and I think people understand we don’t want to go back to the mess and the problems that got us into this,” the former White House press secretary added.

Despite his allegations of weakness in the GOP field, Gibbs continued to assert that the president’s campaign will be that of an “underdog.”

“We’ve always geared our reelection for a close election. I think that’s what we’re going to see… I think the president is quite comfortable being the underdog,” said Gibbs. “I think he’s happy to run this race as if he were behind the whole time.”

Gibbs also batted away the notion that the unemployment rate, which currently stands at 8.3 percent, would be impossible to overcome.

“I think people are going to evaluate this president based on where we were to where we are, the trajectory that we’re on,” he said.